Simon Andriesz died by suicide, The Banker reported Friday; Andy Agathangelou, whose Transparency Task Force hosted him at whistleblowing events, said he “passed away last week.”
Andriesz called the FBI tipline on 19 October 2020. The caller said he had worked in New York for Cantor and BGC. He said Lutnick, who ran both firms and lived next door to Epstein, “could be connected to Jeffrey Epstein.” He said the 9/11 Charity Day the firm ran was a fraud. The FBI did not investigate.
Lutnick’s official narrative, public-facing explanation of his ties to Epstein claimed he cut off ties with his neighbor in 2005. But Lutnick failed to publicly disclose an ongoing relationship that lasted for years later. In December 2012, he lunched with his family on Epstein’s island, and days later, the two men signed into Adfin, an ad-tech startup.
Andriesz had spent 35 years in the markets and reached managing director at BGC. In 2016 he raised accounting irregularities; in 2017 BGC sacked him. The commodities regulator fined BGC $3 million on his allegations and paid him a $420,000 award, the BBC reported in July. The regulator acted. The FBI did not.
In February 2021 two agents phoned a 32-year securities veteran who had managed 50 people at the firm. "LUTNICK instructed all of the fraud being committed," he told them. The Bureau wrote three pages and opened nothing. Four years later Trump named Lutnick to run Commerce. What did the Senate know when it voted?
